Sondre Lerche

I callde you because I love you so
It's reason enough it doesn't show
surely I could ask about things you have done
who am I to question you? oh, no
all I wanna hear is everythihg, alright

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

I called you because we've grown apart
this may seems absurd but I'm in the dark
and somewhere at the end of all the arapet
is the one original? oh, well
now this compensate masonic substitute

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

I will always call it's all that I can do

cause I left my mind in the airport,
my thoughts in a taxi,
my heart in receotion,
the last thing I saw was you

Now they're calling for the second time today
Asking for to borrow those two tapes again
Is it really worth the struggle of covering up?

On the brink and learning how to live with it
Got experience from method toting deep within
And they say it's so inflammable
Am I caught in a trap
with all the remains of a letdown?
All the remains of a letdown

Speak out if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone died at a screening downtown of a tape
of a tape

Now they're running round drawing circles and
Living up to everything you think of them
Such a senseless slender guy
and his greater half

On a mission for the local government
Looking for a tape that's gonna pay the rent
And they say it's so inflammable
The cats will whine the dogs will itch
So bury the beat and forget them
Raise the remains of a letdown

Speak out if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone cried at a screening
Downtown of a tape
Of a tape

Ok

Now it's coming out
the story we all knew
In equal parts all
that you did and that you didn't do
Was it really worth the struggle of covering up?

Leave it playing till it spells the ending back
Is this what happens if you suffer like a cardiac?
Will you beg to be
excused for always dumbing down
Or wrenching up
Now all that's left is a letdown
The view in reverse of a letdown

Speak up if you got it
Watch out if you run
Since I heard someone died at a screening
Downtown of a tape, of a tape

Last stop
Montauk
Try to get
Back on track
No vacation
Don't give up
Just don't look back
If you're looking for an answer, dig in
I have said too much already
I cannot win
This could go on for forever on end
Theres nowhere to turn
Nowhere to begin this isn't a joke it's merely a sin

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle
Our night's too short to say it all
Play it again and say it all
You know the punch line
It's all in the punchline

Pale wind blowing
Cutting right
To the core
You're so patient
When the wreck washed ashore
If you ever need forgiveness, I give
I have done so many incomprehensible things
This could go on for forever on end
Theres nowhere to run
Nowhere to escape
Don't tell me you knew until we awake

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle

Our night's too short to say it all
Play it again and say it all
Do you know the punchline?
It's all in the punchline

Now and again we can leave it all behind
Now and again we can leave it all behind

There is no way to say it all
Play it again and say it all
I said a little
The rest is a riddle
Our night's too short to play it all
Say it again and play it all
You know the punchline
It's all in the punchline

I said a little
The rest is a riddle
You know the punchline
It's all in the punchline

I said a little the rest is a riddle
you know the punchline, it's all in the punchline

Honestly isn't it enough?
Everytime you cross the red line
My tracks go tangling
Anyway where did you become
Such a sneaky perpetrator
Strangely rebellious

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?

Anyway can you not recall
Feeling every generous trust
As I was petrified
Honestly get it off your chest
Each and every sonnet you sing
Makes me want to scream and stuff

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?
Isn't there always something
Shaking the ground breaking things
If it's all the same to you
I'd rather just...

You don't want to feel the phantom punch
You don't want to feel the phantom punch
You don't want to feel the phantom punch
Isn't it already far too much?

Here's a man, his own tragic mirror
capable of such crimes he is scared
to look at himself too long at a time.
Here's a man, his own wrapped up worry
thinking he will do wrong very shortly.
The answer remains locked up in his head.

And charity plays a game with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now
and charity plays away with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now.
Somehow you've got to smarten up
and act like nothing's ever gonna break you
break you, break your mirror in two.

Here's a man aware of his defects
such a sensitive soul such a rebel
capable of detecting his flaws.
Here's a man self righteous, self pitying
nursing losses and pain and inflicting guilt
that should keep them busy for days.

And charity plays a game with your head
it gets to you now, it gets to you now
and vanity takes your dog for a walk
it gets to you now, it gets to you now.
Somehow youve got to smarten up
and act like nothing's ever gonna
break you, break you, break your mirror in two.

Here's a man really worth the attention
so mature but so dumb.
In broad daylight the answer remains locked up in his head
it's blowing around somewhere in his head.

Tell me that the casual panics will give in.
When I hear a scream all my friends just hear the wind.
So, if anybody could prove what god must know,
I'd tell myself the chances of suffering are slim.

Mum said, "All men must fall,"
You can't quit just to stay on your feet.
One day you'll see the blood on the floor.

So will you sweep? Will you be swept?
It's just so hard to believe there's a way out of here!

FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN AND AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

I didn't ever think I'd be sleeping with the sharks,
But everybody said I'd be perfect for that part.
So, if anybody remembers my old name,
Tell everybody that I will always be the same.

My mother spoke the truth,
She outlived all the men in the street.
Knee-high in all the blood on the floor...

It's down to this: Sink or resist;
It's getting hard to believe there's a way out of here!

FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN AND AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD AGAIN!
FACE THE BLOOD, AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN!

Do you have enough to fill a page?
Is there something I should read,
Amplifiers broke the news today,
I was whispering the details

When the world came in
I've seen it before
wearing shimmering clothes
Is the world worth it's spending?
Is that world worth one defending it?

How should I know?
When the phone attacks with numbers I dont trust

(Chorus)
John, Let me go!
I can't conjugate myself
If investigation fails
I'm on my own (my head will roll)

When the coward sits alone again
When you've spent your feathers up(up)
Making sense is made impossible
Making you detect my aim - uh?

When I'm answering
I've seen this before
You are changing things
In a would full of sorrow
Only fools with narrow minds can join

How could I know?
The calls I make've number I dont trust

(Chorus)

I like you too much
After too little time
I hold back my heart's crazy rambling
The fear that I should overwhelm your smile
Frightens the spiders inside me

Oh this could be magic
After all, after all

You daren't define which has happened to us
Well, I've had a name for it for some time
You try to find what it is that you feel
I long to tell you so truly

Oh this could be trouble
After all, after all

And I say is it a dream like it was back then
Is it a dream like it was back in the stars
Could I be so wrong? Could I be so wrong?

Chew every word to prevent what I know
From slipping right out of my fingers
Out of control, I don't know where to go
‘Cause you were my map when I found you

Oh this could get lonely
After all, after all

And I say is it a dream like it was back then
Is it a dream like it was back in the stars
Could I be so wrong? Could I be so wrong?

No one can say all the things that they feel
Without the risk of a failure
So keep in my cards close to my heart
All of you I loved from a distance

Oh this should be magic
After all, after all

All the girls that I know suddenly seem so-so
Suddenly no one quite can compare to her
Why? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
What is a guy to contribute?

All the girls my own age have me turning the page
They're so eager to try
She don't do nothing
Why? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
What is a guy to contribute?

Just like in that old movie about Carlotta's spell
I feel obsessed like Scottie felt
minus the drama and the fraud
I hope I got to get into her way
Out of my way

All the girls in this room sure look pretty and groomed
but I must let you down
She's ahead of you
How? She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
Honestly, what can I contribute?

Just like in that old movie about Rebecca's spell
I feel like Max never felt
minus the drama and the fraud
I hope I got to get into her way
Out of my way

Late at night when I dream about girls that I've seen
very few reach beyond my eyes after I'm gone

No one makes me so weak
and appears so unique
In a cluster of freak
she is all that I seek

No one makes me confused
and so certain I'd lose
I’m battered and bruised
I’m disheveled but true

Everything is a blur
Everything is a blur
None of this would occur
if it wasn't for her
She's fantastic
I do not know what to do
Honestly, what can I contribute?

Looking for something to pass on through
Searching for something to say to you
Even though everything has been said
Somehow there's still something left to add

And while the satellite's asleep
Somewhere it's midnight out there
And while I'm barking at the moon
You sing your heart out to a tune
Hoping you'll never grow old
Hoping you'll never grow old

I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind

Sifting through all the remaining files
Counting down all the remaining miles
Drifting off into a different night
Paralyzed by all the warning lights

Waking the patient satellites
Sleepy benevolent eyes
Heavily drunk on distant love
They never once misplaced a call
I hope they never grow old

I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind
I know it may take some time
To get this day off your mind

Happy Birthday girl ,I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you
Happy Birthday girl, I miss you

Down came the sky
And all you did was blink
I would cry like I never do
In order to stay true
But everybody has their own opinion on such
They're all much alike alike alike
One hundred of a million is worth penning dead down
So why am I writing to the moon?

Down came the sky
to whack us to attack
While we cried in-between our cheeks
I was red and bleak
We often joke it's over but it's never enough
I take it you are afraid afraid
of everything I am and of some things I am not
A fear I share before I go to bed

When tears are pretzels pouring down each time the sweetness is returning
at times when you appreciate that you survived

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

Down came the sky
And everything went black
I saw you, you saw me
And you were naked, which was weird
But in that space in time we played the strangers again
In oceans of oh I see I see
When my words lost their meaning on their way to your door
yours lost their way out of your

I don't want to want you to go
But I think you've left me without options
Things that you should know by now
That I never told

Tricks tend to track you down
Even when you're high
It's the reason they made it all easier
You'll never know the hit
Tricks they track you down
Tricks they track you down

If that's a tear I see
If it's because of me
Then I may well have to
tell you what I would do
But to play is easier than to set the groove
And to think is more simple than changing the mood
Is it more, is it less?
What's that thing on your chest?
Won't you whisper your blues as heartfelt as you can?

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

If I translate you wrong
when I complete your song
That would be my two feet
stumbling ahead of me
I could tell you the tricks that I think hurt you best
About the house packed with people and their loneliness
But the hour is so late
Take some weight off your chest
Let's just pray for our fates and then give it a rest

Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

Go get yourself up straight
I'll throw a melody
That is as serious as it is simple

On the tower
On the tower
On the tower
Meet me halfway
By the bedrock
On the tower

Ma
All the other options that you had in mind stun me
'Cause I'm optionless and turkey-free and blind

Pa
Won't you listen and I'll let you in on this
Blind me
Won't you listen and I'll reduce advice to dust
Oh no
I shouldn't have to spell my name

Ma
If it's worth the made up smiles, the quiet fights
Oh, mother
It is hard not to look in the mirror's eye
I have come to this while you have come along
So it's alright if you change your mind the other way around again
I shouldn't have to spell my name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme

We
We can't reclaim the shirts we threw away last twirl
Uncurl the note-in-pocket, personal brochures that dust
Machine-washed, that's how paper rusts

Days you spend wanting some of Michael Landon's grace
strike back, now they shape your life as stony as his face
Oh no
I shouldn't have to spell his name

So start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues with words that rhyme
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

We were chasing rabbits on the hill
Oh that prairie-life was great, but never real
'Cause we never saw no rabbits out there, ever, no, not once
All we did was put a fire up and watch it burn for months
I miss the sound of stairs and walls and maladjusted doors
and too little space for holding all the soldiers and the war

Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
Start the two way monologues that speak your mind
We're talking two way monologues

One hundred thousand cars have passed this house
The celebration starts with laughter

Can it be that we're not clean?
The days have turned to haze
Tell me how we should have lied
to keep away this space
To keep from snowing in
Keep from lingering
Keep our worlds apart

When it come to letting go
Let the quicksand flow
When I write it in the sand
There is something wrong

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

I leave the heat on to leave a trace
of all the things the air was filled with

All the things I never knew and all the words I know
Now they all come out too late for you to realize
Satisfy my luck
This director's cut
doesn't spare an inch

I have never seen this place and no surrounding walls
As the party turns to dust they all understand

Days that are over
Will not continue to last
If you try to construct the past

Wet ground and the snow is still not falling
Circumstances are alarming, darling
The future's just a word, that's how I recall it
The past is much more present in our yawning

But I heard you right
Something was lost from the start
Oh babe, what should we do, what should we say?
Should we give it away?

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly, it seems to me, I'm subject to a joke
And it's not a test
It's not a test

Wet ground and the stars are still out shining
Neon lights were never oh so blinding
Prosecute the ones who stand accused and
Let the others go and leave them dying

But I heard you right
Everything was here before
We shouldn't add or put away a thing
Let nobody win

The future looked so bright then
What happened tonight?
Now aeroplanes are crashing
Who turned out the light?
Seemingly, it seems to me, I'm subject to a joke
It's not a sin
It's not a sin

You could be sad but never torn
You saw the light when it was on
You never turned or looked away
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

Your sentences were concentrated
You made your points so understated
Where I would mumble, you would say
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

I made up conversations with my symbolic language
Saying everybody wants to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

You got the picture from the start
You saw right through me in the dark
You saw that I couldn't behave
with eyes so focused, yet so frail

I chose you from a million
You were the choice of billions
wishing they would try to be like you
But I'd rather fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

You questioned men and called them whores
But you would never burn your bras
You held your head up in the rain
Your eyes were focused, mine were grey

You had relationships that worked
and yet experience with jerks
So well adjusted, but with charm
Your eyes were focused and yet calm

I'm fairly realistic
But my thoughts are out of lip-sync
when I say that I'm not one of those
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you
who pass you by and fall in love with you

I'll pass you by and fall in love with you

Ba-ba-ba baa-ba...

It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
Such are things we both know
and we think we should say
just to organize the stains
Systems reveal their construction these days
as we escape to drift further away
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't tell you anything you wouldn't know
So nothing has been lost

It's not over at all
If my thoughts could be here
they'd advise you to leave
It's not easy, I know
making hard things look small
But we're dying to try
You have revealed your conclusion by chance
I have replaced you at little expense
We know the stars go out one night
but I can't think of anything I haven't told
Still, nothing has been lost

When you could use the words reserved for a sad song
You'll find you've spent them up on God and everyone
Like anyone before

It's not over at all
You're just trying to smile
I know perfectly well
It's not over
but oh, if my thoughts could be here
They'd advise you to leave
We will be cold where the lights are all out
but at least we can think without reason or doubt
I don't know much about this world
but I can tell you one thing as I pass you by
Nothing has been lost

All alone in pink
All the carpets fade to grey
Amplifiers burst out the deal that I have made
What's there to say I cannot say by myself?

Thinking about writing it down seems pretentious
And helplessness may be the word they nail to my name
In a while

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

All embarrassment
In addition to the talk
In each crowded court there's a spot where I fall in love and short
on public demand
There are no words they can't hear

Stupid memory
Must you bring up these things?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?
All of that crap

I think I forced a smile upon her mouth
I know I dreamt that, hollowness aside
everyone's a winner if the stadium is right
But rarely anything good comes out

Oh yo!
Memory!
Must you bring up these things?
Only stupid words
Make me forget all of that
Stupid memory
Can I forget all that crap?
Stupid memory
Can I forget all of that?

Let it go, everyone's bound to know that I've lost you again
This time you wound up with someone else
Your own will let me down

Put your arms around me
for the first and last time
and say sincerely that you'll keep me in mind

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind

I try to set an example for all of those who blame their luck
You seem to know where you're heading now
I know this and that's not much

Tell me all the things that you never dared to say
Say you're glad you told me
that he isn't going to stay

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

If you are to change your mind
Don't think I'll forget where I have been
I'll stay 'till this torment's over
and I know not where I'm going
Make
It
Easy
On
Me
Please

I have no choice but to let it go
'though I know you'll still be here
But I'll never know you the way he does
Let me know if I will

'Cause time won't wait
'till it's too late
to find out who you were
If you had let me make
one honest mistake
I'd try to change your mind
We've sent letters out there
but you don't care
You know you'll manage alone
We've sent letters to you
They never get through
'Cause you'll get by on your own

I was floating on a stream
Words came easy as the seemed
And as conversations go
I let this one go off enough
Tonight I'll just sit here on my back

When you're applauding your fine mind
Darker corners come to shine
The quality control I run
The filters that I use
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten
What I've forgotten.is now forgotten

But I think you're in my soul

And it warms me to know
that you'll still be in charge of the heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

Yes it warms me to know
that I'll still be in charge of your heart's content
It's our job
It's our job to breathe

You have been waiting all your life
You use your patience to stay fine
Time moves on as you prepare
to tell yourself be reasonable
Then come the times you can't foresee
you cannot leave, you can't release
to keep you far from those dreams
Ignoring the right times
Oh, waiting was my life

For now it's too late
for you may not wait
and things that I have yet to know
vanish before they're complete
I may turn around
to see if you're still there
but as for now, it's just not safe
Maybe you'll wait for me
Maybe you're gone

You've been preparing all your life
You've had some trouble getting it right
And you try to tell yourself it may work, as it should
But something good can do much harm
The good may kill for your embrace
to keep you far from those dreams
you know you cannot dream
I'm stuck for now, it seems